You're not stupid.
You're new.
There's a difference, and it goes away faster with this. Look up the thing you didn't want to ask about. Log the day's hours before you pull out of the lot. Walk on tomorrow knowing the words, the tools and the code that's in play — and nobody at the shop has to watch you learn it.
Your hours are free.
Forever.
Logging your OJT hours, getting them signed off, and exporting them for your state board costs nothing and always will. That record is the evidence for your licence — charging you rent on it would be wrong.
Free forever, on every account
- ✓Log your OJT hours by category, on the truck, in about ten seconds
- ✓Send your journeyman a sign-off link — they approve it without making an account
- ✓Export every approved hour as a PDF your state board will accept
- ✓All the field calculators — conduit fill, voltage drop, load, ampacity, wire size
- ✓Look up an NEC article number to check in your own codebook
Use it right now.
Nothing to sign up for.
The field calculators are open to everybody. They run on your phone in a basement, in a crawl, in the back of the van. Tap one and it works.
Every one of these is free and stays free. The paid plan is Tomorrow, the questions, and the photo check below.
Show up knowing.
That's the whole trick.
Nobody hands an apprentice a plan for the next four years. This is one: find out what tomorrow needs, ask what you don't know without an audience, and keep the hours that prove you did it.
Somebody hands you the bender and walks off.
Lay out the offset or the saddle with the exact shrink and travel, and check conduit fill against NEC Chapter 9 before you cut the stick. Free, no account, and it does not tell anyone you looked.
Open Conduit StudioTomorrow
Words · Tools · CodeType what you're on tomorrow. Get the vocabulary you'll hear, the tools he'll ask for by nickname, the code that's in play with the article cited, and three questions he might throw at you — with the answers.
Walk on already knowingAsk
Private · Cited · YoursThe question you didn't want to ask out loud, asked as many times as you need. Plain English in, article number out — and when it can't verify a section it says so instead of making one up.
Nobody at the shop sees itHours
Log · Sign · ExportLog the day by category in about ten seconds, on the truck. Send your journeyman a link and they approve it without making an account. Export every approved hour as a PDF you can hand to the board.
Free foreverA confident answer
is not the same as a right one.
General AI hands you a real-sounding article number that doesn't exist, and you repeat it on site. Answers here are grounded in NEC 2020 and 2023 and ship with the article, so you can open your own codebook and check before you say it out loud.
“Per NEC 210.52(G)(1), GFCI is required at this location.”
- ×That article doesn't say that — or doesn't exist.
- ×Sounds certain. Nothing to check it against.
- ×Trained on internet scrapes about the code, not the code itself.
- ×Math that looks right until somebody runs it.
The article number, so you can check it before you say it.
- ✓Every answer carries the NEC article. Open the book and check us.
- ✓When a section isn't indexed, it says so instead of guessing.
- ✓Built for trade logic, not a general chatbot with a hard hat on.
- ✓Field math runs against the real tables.
Two apprentices.
One of them looked it up.
Deciding whether the question is worth looking stupid over.
- ×Nodding at a word you've never heard and hoping it comes up again.
- ×Asking the same thing a third time, or not asking at all.
- ×Hours on a scrap of paper in the truck, reconstructed in March.
- ×Walking on with no idea what today is.
Asked it last night. Showed up knowing.
- ✓The words for tomorrow's work, before anybody uses them on you.
- ✓Ask it forty times. It has no opinion about you.
- ✓Hours logged by category in ten seconds, signed off from a link.
- ✓A PDF of approved hours when the board asks for it.
This is the cheap part
of an expensive four years.
Books, code books and exam prep run $750–$1,337 a school year, out of your pocket, before you have a licence to show for it. This doesn't replace any of it. It's what you use the night before, when the book is at the shop and you don't want to text anybody at nine o'clock.
Two ways to use it.
One of them costs nothing.
Your licensing record. We don't charge for it and we're not going to.
- Log your OJT hours by category, on the truck, in about ten seconds
- Send your journeyman a sign-off link — they approve it without making an account
- Export every approved hour as a PDF your state board will accept
- All the field calculators — conduit fill, voltage drop, load, ampacity, wire size
- Look up an NEC article number to check in your own codebook
The part that teaches you. Ask what you don't know, in private.
- Tomorrow — the words, tools and code before you walk on
- Ask anything, as often as you want, and nobody at your shop sees it
- Every answer cites the NEC article, or says it can't
- Check your own work from a photo first
- Your hours, sign-offs and export stay free
New accounts get 14 days of the Apprentice plan included — your hours are free with or without it. Already licensed, or running a crew? Those plans are still here.
FAQ.
Nobody has to know
you didn't know.
Ask it here first. Log today's hours before you pull out of the lot. Find out what tomorrow needs while you've still got tonight to learn it. The hours are free forever, so start there and decide about the rest later.